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  • Trouble, Trials, and Vexations: The Journal and Correspondence of Rachel Perry Moores, Texas Plantation Mistress

    Edited by Thomas W. Cutrer ...
    Rachel Moores and her husband David operated a cotton plantation in the bottoms of the Sulphur River in North East Texas. From that vantage point, they viewed the changing fortunes of Texas as the American Civil War opened their privileged lifestyle. David went to war while the task of operating this large farming enterprise fell to Rachel. More than 2000 acres and dozens of enslaved people fell ... Read more

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  • The Mexican-American War Experiences of Twelve Civil War Generals

    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Long overshadowed by the American Civil War, the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) has received significantly less attention from historians partly because of its questionable origin and controversial outcome. Rather than treat the conflict with a form of historical amnesia, the contributors to this volume argue that the Mexican-American War was a formative experience for the more than three ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Ahern Home of Texarkana

    Series series Red River Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Texarkana
    Focused on an early twentieth-century home in Texarkana, Arkansas, Doris Douglas Davis’s The Ahern Home of Texarkana offers not only a discussion of the architecture of a Classical Revival dwelling but also provides a closely observed account of the material culture and social structures of a particular time and place in the American South.Built in 1905–1906 by Patrick Ahern, who immigrated to the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Ben Mcculloch and the Frontier Military Tradition

    Series series Civil War America
    “[A] well-written, comprehensively researched biography.” — Publishers Weekly“Will both edify the scholar while captivating and entertaining the general reader. . . . Cutrer’s research is impeccable, his prose vigorous, and his life of McCulloch likely to remain the standard for many years.” — Civil War“A well-crafted work that makes an important contribution to understanding the frontier military ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Mexican War Diary and Correspondence of George B. McClellan

    Edited by Thomas W. Cutrer ...
    In his standard reference work on the Civil War, Generals in Blue, Ezra Warner declared George B. McClellan (1826--1885) "one of the most controversial figures in American military history." In this revealing book, Thomas W. Cutrer provides the definitive edition of McClellan's detailed diary and letters from his service in the Mexican War (1846--1848), during which he began the rise that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Theater of a Separate War

    The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865

    Series series Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
    Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent. From cotton-rich Texas and the fields of Kansas through Indian Territory and into the high desert of New Mexico, the Trans-Mississippi Theater was site of major clashes from the war’s earliest days through the surrenders of ... Read more

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    The Complete Annotated Edition

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  • Teacher of Civil War Generals

    Major General Charles Ferguson Smith, Soldier and West Point Commandant

    From West Point to Fort Donelson, General Charles Ferguson Smith was a soldier's soldier. He served at the U.S. Military Academy from 1829 to 1842 as Instructor of Tactics, Adjutant to the Superintendent and Commandant of Cadets. During his 42-year career he was a teacher, mentor and role model for many cadets who became prominent Civil War generals, and he was admired by such former students as ... Read more

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  • Clouds of Glory

    The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee

    by Michael Korda ...
    New York Times Bestseller"Lively, approachable, and captivating. Like Lee himself, everything about Clouds of Glory is on a grand scale." —Boston GlobeMichael Korda, the acclaimed biographer of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers Ike and Hero, offers a brilliant, balanced, single-volume biography of Robert E. Lee, the first major study in a generationKorda paints a vivid... ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • Custer

    The Making of a Young General

    The name George Armstrong Custer looms large in American history, specifically for his leadership in the American Indian Wars and unfortunate fall at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But before his time in the West, Custer began his career fighting for the Union in the Civil War. In Custer: The Making of a Young General, legendary Civil War historian Edward G. Longacre provides fascinating insight ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • California and the American Civil War

    by Alton Pryor ...
    California sent more volunteers to fight in the American Civil War than any other state in the Union. California sent about 17,000 men to fight in the Civil War. Volunteers fought in 31 engagements, most in the Shenandoah Valley.Author Alton Pryor has captured many of the elements involving California and the American Civil War. ... Read more

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  • Fields of Blood

    The Prairie Grove Campaign

    Series series Civil War America
    William L. Shea offers a gripping narrative of the events surrounding fighting at Prairie Grove, Arkansas, one of the great unsung battles of the Civil War, which effectively ended Confederate offensive operations west of the Mississippi River. Fields of Blood provides a colorful account of a grueling campaign that lasted five months and covered hundreds of miles of rugged Ozark terrain. In a ... Read more

    $17.09 USD